Feb. 10, 2006
L&I workers’ compensation wallet cards now available to employers
TUMWATER — To help ensure that employers are promptly notified of a workplace-injury claim, the Department of Labor & Industries (L&I) has created wallet cards that employers should fill out and give to their workers.
The cards are available online at www.WalletCards.LNI.wa.gov. They can also be ordered from L&I by calling 1-360-902-5400.
In a continuing effort to ensure that employers are promptly notified of injury claims, L&I also is supporting legislation this session that would give some injured workers the option of filing claims through their employer. If the legislation becomes law, and a pilot program succeeds in improving worker outcomes, it could be expanded to include all workers and employers. Currently, all claims are filed through the injured worker’s doctor.
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For media information: Robert T. Nelson, L&I, 360-902-6043 or nelq235@LNI.wa.gov, or visit the L&I News and Media Center at www.LNI.wa.gov/News.
